Biddle
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I have two water softeners plumbed in line with each other to remove iron. The brine draw by water softener #1 is very slow: a guess is that is takes about 30 minutes to draw a gallon of brine from the brine tank. The brine draw from water softener #2 is very fast: a guess is that it takes 5 or 6 minutes to draw a gallon of brine. I'm concerned that water softener #2 isn't getting sufficient brine to backwash the resin because it draws brine so slowly. Both softeners have Fleck 2510 control heads. Water softener #1 (the slow one) was just recently installed. The Fleck 2510 control head I put on it was previously used with an iron filter tank. At the advice of a water softener parts company, I replaced the DLFC button in the control head with a 2.0 gpm DLFC since it was now going to be used on a water softener as opposed to an iron filter. Any thoughts as to why one water softener is so slow while the other is so fast and how I can fix it? Thanks for your help.